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Check out this fish? Any ideas what going on with it?
That black stripe is something I have never seen before.
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Black nose crappie, I think it's a hybrid between white and black crappie.
Ditch has caught a lot of these and will know for sure tho.
Go online and type in black nose crappie, there is a ton of info on them. Tennessee uses them in restocking. I have caught a few on wheeler.
This was caught on Upper Bear.
We catch them on lake eufaula. I caught one Saturday.
Tons of Blacknose info right here on Crappie.com too. Go to the little box at upper right corner of the page and search in the box that says "Google Custom Search".
Yep, a black nose for sure. I've caught them on all the TN river reservoirs I fish at one time or another.
I have always called them and heard them called magnolia crappie! I think most of them are stocked fish.
FYI taken from some Kentucky wild life info page :
The Blacknose crappie is a black crappie which displays a dark line from its nose to the middle of its back and all the way to its tail; they are found in 14 states but were first reported in Arkansas.
The black stripe is the result of a recessive gene, which breeds true when using black stripe brooders, in 1995 the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife stocked 295,000 four inch Blacknose crappie in Dale Hollow, at that time, it was a good way to examine reproduction rates since they were easy to tell apart from native fish.
Looks like somebody just used a magic marker on it. Black nose. Who knew. I'm going to have to start looking closer.
I also meant to tell you guys that that excessive coloring makes them unfit to eat so just send them to me and ill take care of them for you :biggrin
Erin ... Magnolia Crappie are a sterile hybrid cross between a White Crappie & a Blacknose Black Crappie, that's been done by the Mississippi biologists in their fish hatcheries. They were solely for stocking small lakes in Mississippi, not for stocking lakes in other states.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erin Brewer
A Blacknose Black Crappie is a naturally occurring fish in many states. It just has a pigment gene that causes the black stripe, but otherwise is no different than any other Black Crappie without the stripe.
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Yeah, years ago many of us thought the same thing ... and we were proven wrong. It's just simply a Black Crappie that has a pigment gene that creates the black stripe. They occur naturally in about 11 states, and have been widely disseminated as a stock fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by YaBoyMaxWeezy
... cp :kewl
Black nose fer sure
Yes Sir that's a blacknose. Some lakes are full of them.
I've caught them in Texas, Missouri, Georgia and Alabama over the years. I always believed them to be a naturally occurring hybrid (cross between a Black Crappie and a White Crappie) but I don't think I've ever heard a fisheries biologist give a definitive answer.